(she knows she doesn't have to talk, it just feels like she has to say something. this is too big to leave unexplained. it's so horrifying. abby has barely confronted this, she's pushed it down and aside for too long. seeing both of the bodies has it bubbling back up her throat like bile.)
I argued with both of them, (she admits as clarisse looks at her, and tries to soothe her while positively radiating contempt,) And then I left and when I got back to the aquarium–
(surely the contempt isn't for her? but it could be, easily. she was a shit friend, in the end, and she's being a shit friend now as well. she hasn't changed. her gaze flickers back to clarisse, and her eyes are wide and watery, her expression scared for the briefest moment, teeth pressing into her lip.
she opens her mouth, but the apology sticks in her throat. her attention jumps back to mel.)
She was pregnant, (she whispers. the bulk of her dead body isn't immediately apparent when she's hanging like that, concealed by her layers of jackets and the angle that they're facing her, but abby knows. she thought a lot of unkind things about that pregnancy, and the guilt of it makes her teeth hurt.)
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I argued with both of them, (she admits as clarisse looks at her, and tries to soothe her while positively radiating contempt,) And then I left and when I got back to the aquarium–
(surely the contempt isn't for her? but it could be, easily. she was a shit friend, in the end, and she's being a shit friend now as well. she hasn't changed. her gaze flickers back to clarisse, and her eyes are wide and watery, her expression scared for the briefest moment, teeth pressing into her lip.
she opens her mouth, but the apology sticks in her throat. her attention jumps back to mel.)
She was pregnant, (she whispers. the bulk of her dead body isn't immediately apparent when she's hanging like that, concealed by her layers of jackets and the angle that they're facing her, but abby knows. she thought a lot of unkind things about that pregnancy, and the guilt of it makes her teeth hurt.)